1972 Polish legislative election

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 19 March 1972.[1] The results, like with the other elections in communist Poland, were controlled by the communist government. The results of the 1965 election would be duplicated, exactly, by the 1969 and 1972 elections. The results of the next, 1976 election, would be only marginally different.

1972 Polish legislative election
19 March 1972
All 460 seats in the Sejm
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Edward Gierek Stanisław Gucwa Zygmunt Moskwa
Party PZPR ZSL SD
Leader since 20 December 1970 1971 1969
Last election 255 seats 117 seats 39
Seats won 255 117 39
Seat change 0 0 0

Results
Party Votes % Seats +/–
Front of National UnityPolish United Workers' Party21,746,24299.52550
United People's Party1170
Democratic Party390
Independents490
Blank ballots103,1550.5––
Invalid votes5,084–––
Total21,854,4811004600
Registered voters/turnout22,313,85197.9––
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

As the other parties and "independents" were in fact subordinate to PZPR, its control of the Sejm was, in fact, total.[2][3]

References
  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1491 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Norman Davies (May 2005). God's Playground: 1795 to the present. Columbia University Press. p. 459. ISBN 978-0-231-12819-3. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
  3. Andrzej Paczkowski; Jane Cave (2003). The spring will be ours: Poland and the Poles from occupation to freedom. Penn State Press. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-271-02308-3. Retrieved 3 June 2011.


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